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Moving columns and formatting data – Apple AppleWorks 5 : Mac OS User Manual

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Moving columns and formatting data

As you work in List mode, you can change the position of a column or the
appearance of data in a column or row

.

Note You can change the appearance of text in a column in one step by
applying a style. See “Using styles” on page 9-5.

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Choose Index from the

or Help menu and scroll to the entry. Then choose a topic from

the list and click Go To Topic.

To

Do this

Example

Move a column

Move the pointer to the column
heading. The pointer changes to
this

. Drag the column to the

new position.

Change the
format of a
column of
number, date, or
time fields

Double-click the column
heading, choose options in the
Format dialog box, and then click
OK

.

Change the
appearance of
text in a column

Double-click the column heading
and select options in the
Text Style dialog box. Or, select
the column and choose from the
Font, Style, Size, and Text Color

pop-up

menus in the button bar.

Change the
appearance of all
the text fields in
one or more rows

Select the rows and choose from
the Font, Style, Size, and Text
Color

pop-up menus in the button

bar. (Your changes don’t affect
number, date, or other non-text
fields.)

In the Help index,

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see:

E

List mode

Pointer

Before

After